Alan,
You mean to say that your powers that be don't differentiate between
content and format?
That is crazy. Format has nothing to do with content. This is a
self-inflicted wound.
Try to convince them that format can be standardized at publishing.
Content should be held sacrosanct bit could change to reflect the
proper formatting.
Good Luck
Scott
At 5:11 PM +1300 1/19/07, Alan Litchfield wrote:
...based on an FM file.
I need to create a Word template for use by contributors to a large
document. Most of the content will have passed through various
approval committees and courts before finally being added to the
document. Once the content has been approved it cannot be varied,
regardless of what ever horrible formats have been used.
Previously the inclusion process has led to a wide range of
paragraph (numbering, bulleting, etc.) styles. The decision has now
been made to enforce a standardisation of the formats in new
content, but most contributors do not use/will never use FM. They
will use MS Word however, hence the need to create a template that
provides the formats for them.
I have exported the FM file using mif2go and created a .dot file in
MS Word. However I still need to be rid of the various formats that
Word seems to put in there by default. I have worked out how to
define the template as a global template, but how can I also remove
Normal.dot (this seems to be where the other styles are coming from)?
I need to be able to disable the auto numbering functions when
people use this template (effectively so they are forced to use the
FM heading and paragraph numbering numbering, etc). Any clues on
where I can find information on how to do this? Do I need to look at
putting VB into the template file in order to control Word's
functionality (disabling functions, etc.)?
Cheers
Alan
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